History Carnival #108-April, 2012

by pamela on April 1, 2012

Image from the Library of Congress Collection

Welcome to the Carnival!*

In the spirit of April 1st, I’ve sought out blog posts from the last month** that celebrate the foolish, the topsy-turvy, and the quirky. Blog posts that stand historical truths on their head, or at least gives them a little shake. No clown noses. No mean tricks. No whoopie cushions. Unless, of course, they’re historical whoopie cushions.

By the Muses! Capito offers you the thanks of Briarius to Zeus (or, as Plutarch might say, of the old man to Pyrrhias) for including my blog in this list. I am soon to move to Basel, where Erasmus and Holbein labor for good letters and art. What a fortuitous year is 1515.